The House of Mirth nan whose uncontrolled desires and extensive

whose uncontrolled desires and extensive vanity both test his family’s loyalty and stretch their finances to the furthest possible limit

Helen and Ridley Ambrose are preparing to set off for an exotic resort off the coast of South America on the Euphrosyne

both are grasping for meaning in a world that feels either too chaotic or too painfully predictable

Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong

Turgenev admitted to being influenced

The House of Mirth nan whose uncontrolled desires and extensiveAn impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she contracts at the card table, her reduced circumstances and the constant gossip she attracts from malevolent tongues through her heedless behaviour and faux pas make her prospects look bleak. As suitor after